I Got Banged In The Arse By SW Trains For £32

[Citizen66]

You haven't answered the question a few people have asked you: what happens if you decide not to travel at all? Should you be liable for a full price ticket then? After all, you haven't done what you agreed to do.

If not, why not?

And what if he decides to get off the train a stop early? Will the guard call British Transport Police to drag him back onto the train to finish the journey?

What if someone has to get off early because they've fallen ill. Will they refuse them access to the ambulance until they've paid their penalty fare?

 

[Fez909]

Perhaps no one wants to travel to B at a certain time, so the train is empty from A to B. Plenty of people want to travel from B to C however. The only way to fill up the A to B bit is to sell cheap A to C tickets.

Not so fast.

One option would be to sell cheap A to B tickets but allow you to combine this with a B to C ticket. It's called split ticketing and is a common way to save money on trains due to the madness of the system you're justifying.

If they sold cheap A to B tickets it would mean they'd have a much fuller train for that part of the journey, while maintaining flexability for anyone who wants to either get off at B or carry on to C (with an additional fare being paid) as well as the link between distance travelled and cost being restored (at least on one line).

What's not to like?

 

[fractionMan]

I'm only up to page one. Great thread everyone!

 

[Fez909]

I'm on a train with a ticket to Middlesbrough but I'm going to get off at Thornaby. Fuck ya t&cs!

#informalanarchistactions

 

[neonwilderness]

I'm on a train with a ticket to Middlesbrough but I'm going to get off at Thornaby. Fuck ya t&cs!

#informalanarchistactions

The RailUK Stasi have been informed and will be waiting to give you a ticking off

 

[Fez909]

If Sturmbannführer Bungle thinks he can tick me off for trying to travel through to Thornaby without a true Thornaby ticket, then tough titty!

 

[Frances Lengel]

Bungle73 wins this thread just for sticking to his guns when everyone's on his case. In fact, Bungle is god.

Just be careful of the "um's" creeping back in though, eh?

 

[alan_]

I'm in Middlesbrough and I'm keeping my eyes peeled. If I see a fucker in a red fez, I will rugby tackle them

 

[tufty79]

Just wait at thornaby and tackle every passenger to be sure

 

[bmd]

I got on a train the other day and the ticket bloke didn't have his machine with him so he asked me to buy one when I got off. Not sure what else he could have done under the circumstances but I thought it was pretty cool. A bit like using the announcement system to say "everyone got a ticket? Great stuff."

 

[alan_]

Wait at Thornaby and say "Urban" to every passenger. The one that refuses eye contact.......rugby tackle

 

[Yelkcub]

That would have been my number 1 plan but he watched me get on they jumped me before i had sat down. Absolute bastard.

Sounds more like a Number 2 plan....

 

[Frances Lengel]

Wait at Thornaby and say "Urban" to every passenger. The one that refuses eye contact.......rugby tackle

Nah, say "Um" to every passenger.

 

[Citizen66]

Nah, say "Um" to every passenger.

I think I'd finally reconstructed you in my own mind as a rough diamond with a heart of gold that shoots from the hip, but here you are supporting blind authoritarian bureaucracy. You're tough to fathom, I'll hand you that.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

You lot are just the armchair anarchist version of those Tory blokes who moan and moan about getting a speeding fine for doing 45 in a 30 and how it's an unreasonable tax on the average motorist.

 

[twentythreedom]

I mentioned this elsewhere, the other day I got a train from London to Portsmouth, paid £38 on the day, when the guard came round I was struggling to find the ticket, he said "don't worry, I believe you, you look trustworthy to me" and fucked off

Eta it was on SW too

 

[8115]

You lot are just the armchair anarchist version of those Tory blokes who moan and moan about getting a speeding fine for doing 45 in a 30 and how it's an unreasonable tax on the average motorist.

 

[Treacle Toes]

You lot are just the armchair anarchist version of those Tory blokes who moan and moan about getting a speeding fine for doing 45 in a 30 and how it's an unreasonable tax on the average motorist.

 

[twentythreedom]

You lot are just the armchair anarchist version of those Tory blokes who moan and moan about getting a speeding fine for doing 45 in a 30 and how it's an unreasonable tax on the average motorist.

But it is

 

[kittyP]

Not it's fucking not.
Doing 45 in a 30 could be risking someone's life.
The OP clearly was not doing that.... as far as we know

 

[twentythreedom]

Not it's fucking not.
Doing 45 in a 30 could be risking someone's life.
The OP clearly was not doing that.... as far as we know

Points is fair, taking non means tested cash isn't. Fuckers.

 

[kittyP]

Points is fair, taking non means tested cash isn't. Fuckers.

I didn't understand a word of that

 

[free spirit]

I mentioned this elsewhere, the other day I got a train from London to Portsmouth, paid £38 on the day, when the guard came round I was struggling to find the ticket, he said "don't worry, I believe you, you look trustworthy to me" and fucked off

Eta it was on SW too

difference being, we're right, they're wrong.

handily, that's almost always the difference between the 2 sets of opinions.

Unfortunately they have 1 party of their own in power and have successfully infected the other 2 main parties with their nonsense as well, so they get to make the laws and shit all over us, despite us being right.

 

[Ted Striker]

I'm on a train with a ticket to Middlesbrough but I'm going to get off at Thornaby. Fuck ya t&cs!

#informalanarchistactions

I always buy a ticket a good few stops past my destination to really stick it to the man. Just this week I topped up my Oyster with a weekly Zone 1-3 EVEN THO I'VE GOT NO PLANS TO GO OUTSIDE ZONE 2 AT ALL.

 

[Wilf]

I'm on a train with a ticket to Middlesbrough but I'm going to get off at Thornaby. Fuck ya t&cs!

#informalanarchistactions

I wouldn't.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I always buy a ticket a good few stops past my destination to really stick it to the man. Just this week I topped up my Oyster with a weekly Zone 1-3 EVEN THO I'VE GOT NO PLANS TO GO OUTSIDE ZONE 2 AT ALL.

PMSL!

 

[Wilf]

For me, Bungle fails the Turing Test. Not so much that his posts are machine generated, but come from some strange hybrid Daily Mail-Angry Wasp coupling.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I think I'd finally reconstructed you in my own mind as a rough diamond with a heart of gold that shoots from the hip, but here you are supporting blind authoritarian bureaucracy. You're tough to fathom, I'll hand you that.

Not that I'm putting meself in the same bracket as any of the groovers mentioned, but it seemed a decent excuse to post a decent tune. Kristofferson won't have paid on the train though. And neither will Bobby McGee have.

 

[Wilf]

Bungle73 wins this thread just for sticking to his guns when everyone's on his case. In fact, Bungle is god.

Just be careful of the "um's" creeping back in though, eh?

I suspect he got 'Defend SW Trains' as his forfeit, whereas Father Ted got 'Kick Bishop Brennan up the Arse'. Given a choice, it would have been Len's ring all the way for me.

 

[Wilf]

I think I'd finally reconstructed you in my own mind as a rough diamond with a heart of gold that shoots from the hip, but here you are supporting blind authoritarian bureaucracy. You're tough to fathom, I'll hand you that.

Frances and Bungle haunt each other's dreams.